In VHS Huron Valley Sinai Hospital v. Sentinel Insurance Company, 328005, the Court of Appeals applied the holding Michigan Supreme Court in Covenant Med Ctr, Inc v. State Farm Mut Auto Ins Co, 500 Mich 191; 895 NW2d 490 (2017) that the plaintiff, a health care provider, did not possess a statutory cause of action against no-fault insurers for the recovery of personal protection insurance benefits. Specifically, the court held that: 1) the law set forth in Covenant applied retroactively to Defendant's pending appeal; and 2) Defendant did not waive its defense as to plaintiff’s lack of standing through a stipulated order and consent judgment.

After hearing mini-oral argument in Marik v. Marik, No. 154549, the Michigan Supreme Court vacated the Court of Appeals’ order and remanded to the trial court to reconsider whether a court’s postjudgment order denying a party’s request to change a minor child’s school enrollment is a “postjudgment order affecting the custody of a minor” and therefore a “final order” under MCR 7.202(6)(a)(iii). We previously blogged about Marikhere.

In A.B. Petro Mart, Inc. v. Prime One Insurance, No. 327481, the Michigan Court of Appeals held that under the insurable-interest doctrine, an insured party is not required to have a legal interest in or financial responsibility for any damages to the insured property in order to be indemnified under an aleatory indemnity contract.

In Stankevich v. Milliron, No. 310710, the Michigan Court of Appeals held that the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015), requires that Michigan recognize same sex marriage and therefore the Equitable Parent Doctrine extends to persons in same-sex marriages. In so holding, the Court of Appeals concluded that the plaintiff had standing to seek the status of an equitable parent.

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